Technical Summary
This document obsoletes RFC 4005 and is not backward compatible with
that document. The main change compared to the RFC 4005 is the removal
of all of the material related to RADIUS/Diameter protocol interactions,
which was underspecified and misleading. Moreover, the Command Code Format
(CCF) for the Accounting-Request and Accounting-Answer messages has been
changed to explicitly require the inclusion of the Acct-Application-Id AVP and
exclude the Vendor-Specific-Application-Id AVP. The accounting model to be
used with this application is also specified.
Working Group Summary
The document spent almost two years as WG document and the
proposed changes from RFC 4005 were straightforward and roughly
endorsed by the Working Group. There was no controversy on its
final content.
Document Quality
A number of vendors have indicated interest on implementing
the specification due it correcting several known flaws.
There has been no MIB Doctor or Media Type reviews as those
were not seen relevant for the bis version of the specification.
There has not been explicitly requested expert reviews outside
the WG as we believe most if not all important technical experts
are already represented in the WG and its mailing list. The
document has received multiple reviews while in WGLC.
Personnel
Lionel Morand (lionel.morand@orange.com) is the Document Shepherd, as Dime WG co-chair.
Benoit Claise (bclaise@cisco.com) is the Responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
Please add RFC 4005 as an informative reference